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bfunded - Social Enterprise - Project planning

Planning is vital if you are seeking to develop a new project or activity.

A project is a piece of work your organisation is doing now or plans to do (often the same as an objective). e.g. Anytown Women's Health Collective has an advice line project; an information project; and a campaigning project.

When planning your project(s), it is important for your organisation to ask itself:

Is the project really needed - will it meet a need and make a difference?
Does it fit with your other activities and your original aims?
Who is doing similar things - why will your project be different?
Will it attract sufficient resources?
Are the expected results realistic and worth the effort?
What will you need to make it happen?
Have you got the capacity to plan and manage this project? If not, can you get training / recruit new committee members / adjust your plans? The skills you need to have will change over time - the initial excitement, enthusiasm and 'push' will need to give way to efficient financial and human resource management.

Where can I get help to plan my project?

WYSELINK

The WYSELINK Social Enterprise Adviser may be able to give you support with planning your project. Contact WYSELINK on Tel: 0845 833 6000, Fax: 0113 383 7700 Email: info@wyselink.co.uk web: www.wyselink.co.uk

The Bradford Infrastructure Support Organisations Network (BISON)

The BISON partnership provide joined up, high quality, responsive support services to voluntary and community organisations. The partners bring together generalist, locally based support organisations and specialist support organisations. Working together has enabled partners to share resources, develop referral systems and raise awareness of the support that is available for VCS in the District.

The BISON partners are (in alphabetical order):